Christmas customs

Christmas has become the most economically significant holiday of the year. It is largely characterized by exchanging gifts within families, and by gifts brought by Santa Claus or other mythical figures. Local and regional Christmas traditions are still rich and varied, despite the widespread influence of American and British Christmas motifs through literature, television, and other media.

Featured Christmas Sites:

LightTheNight
Christmas Lighting and Outdoor Lighting Specialists - LightTheNight offers complete design, sales, and installation of premanufactured and customized commercial or residential Christmas lighting displays.
www.LightTheNight.com/

Christmas Depot
The best selection of Christmas trees, lights, garlands, ornaments, animated figures, holiday music boxes and outdoor decorations available anywhere on the Internet. Christmas Depot carries the full line of fine quality Village products and collectible Snowbabies from Department 56, the finest name in the business. They are the exclusive worldwide distributor of Holiday Tree & Trim Company's full line of premium quality, American-made artificial Christmas trees.

Other Christmas customs Sites:

Kids Domain - Christmas Around the World
Christmas Around the World Here is some fun information about traditions and celebrations around the world...
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/around.html

Why Christmas
...whychristmas?com answers your Christmas questions. Information includes how Christmas traditions and customs came into being, how Christmas is...
http://www.whychristmas.com/

CVC Christmas Page Christmas History International Christmas
Short Christmas history, along with customs and songs from around the world. Also includes stories, slide shows, and video clips produced by CVC...
http://www.cvc.org/christmas/index.htm

Howstuffworks "How Christmas Works"
Answers over thirty questions about the traditions behind Christmas trees, cards, shopping, plants, songs and customs.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/christmas.htm

Christmas on the Net - The History of Christmas
The History of Christmas...
http://www.holidays.net/christmas/story.htm

Holiday Traditions - France
Christmas customs, originating in the Middle East, were introduced to France by the Romans. Reims was the site of the first French Christmas...
http://www.californiamall.com/holidaytraditions/traditions-France.htm

WorldView! - Christmas.com Around the World!
Christmas Greetings from Around the World! ~ It's back! We've got Merry Christmas in various languages broken down by country!
http://christmas.com/worldview/

Christmas traditions & customs round the world. How different...
Christmas tradition and custom are different in every country, and Father Christmas - Santa Claus -has many names. How people abroad celebrate...
http://www.soon.org.uk/country/christmas.htm

Christmas Traditions around the world. Santa's Net. How Christmas is...
Ever wonder how they celebrate Christmas in Japan? Germany? Poland? This site tells about celebrations in more than a dozen countries.
http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Europe's Christmas kaleidoscope
The BBC News website look at the variety of European traditions at Christmas and New Year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/world/europe/4105977.stm